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by rndgermandude
1394 days ago
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Calling the AfD voter block "outright facists" is not helpful. Yeah, there is sadly plenty of people in there deserving of that description. And yeah, the danger the AfD poses should not be downplayed, nor should the danger of PEGIDA be downplayed. But study after study, survey after survey has shown that most of the voter block of the AfD are not "outright fascists" but people disillusioned by the establishment parties who then fall prey to the the less extremist public messaging the AfD likes to do. These people aren't fascists', they aren't nazis, and constantly calling them names will certainly not help, but drive them even more towards the AfD. So please, I implore you to tone down your hyperbole. Where this kind of "basket of deplorables" rhetoric eventually leads we can all watch with horror. |
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In particular in German discourse on fascism there's always been the observation that this is precisely its most dangerous form, a popular term used to be Extremismus der Mitte (literally, extremism of the middle).
In its most serious form fascism is an extremism of the middle-class, the small merchants, the bureaucracy, the policeman, the lawyer, the doctor and so forth. The meathead with the swastika tattoo on his arm looks scary but nobody takes him seriously. One of the strongest backbones of the NSDAP, which people tend to forget, were women.(https://scroll.in/article/959951/why-i-became-a-nazi-essays-...)